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Monday, October 6, 2014

Dire warnings about soy? Not so fast!

Posted by
Polly Malby

We hear a lot of dire warnings about the foods we eat ...

Have you noticed that those warnings seldom target the favorite goodies marketed by big business - the profiteers of the cookies, sodas and junk foods that promote illness and obesity? One of my favorite sources of protein, soy, is targeted often so when I came across the article by Dr Gregor, I decided to share it with you!

Breast cancer survivors who eat soy foods, for example, have a significantly lower likelihood of cancer recurrence. A 2012 reviewlooked at the three studies done to date on the link between soy and breast cancer survival. It showed that women who ate the most soy had a 29% lower risk of dying from breast cancer and a 36% lower risk of cancer recurrence. A fourth studyhas since been published that reaffirms these results. With an average intake of soy phytonutrients above 17 mg/day—the amount found in about a cup of soymilk—the mortality of breast cancer may be reduced by as much as 38%.

In my video, BRCA Breast Cancer Genes and Soy, you can see a five-year survival curve for Chinese women with breast cancer. After two years, all of the breast cancer survivors that ate lots of soy were still alive, while only about two-thirds of the women who ate the least amount of soy were alive. After five years, 90% of the tofu lovers were still alive and kicking, whereas half of the tofu haters had kicked the bucket. There is a similar relationship between breast cancer survival and soy protein intake, as opposed to just soy phytonutrient intake. Click Here to read more.

If you'd not tried tofu and would like some recipes, contact me and I can share more of our experience!

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